I recently discovered an article on the subject from Norwegian
sociocultural anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen that might be of
interest here.[1][2] (As a full disclosure about how I came upon it, it was
mentioned in the Around the Web Digest of my favorite anthro blog, Savage
Minds.[3] :)
It
Does anybody happen to know why Russia and Moldova are classified as
Global North whereas Ukraine and Belarus are classified as Global South,
from the WMF point of view? There is some discussion (specifically about
Belarus) at the talk page, but it is too heated and I was not able to
get the
I think the reason is more than obvious: Belarus is south of Moldova and
Ukraine is in between, so it went south. As Russia is basically on the east
of all of three countries, it's logical to put it among the northern
countries.
On Jun 11, 2015 9:59 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
On 2015-06-11 22:03, Milos Rancic wrote:
I think the reason is more than obvious: Belarus is south of Moldova
and
Ukraine is in between, so it went south. As Russia is basically on the
east
of all of three countries, it's logical to put it among the northern
countries.
Not that I object the
On Jun 11, 2015 10:06 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
On 2015-06-11 22:03, Milos Rancic wrote:
I think the reason is more than obvious: Belarus is south of Moldova and
Ukraine is in between, so it went south. As Russia is basically on the
east
of all of three countries, it's
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Michał Buczyński sand...@o2.pl wrote:
It would be _bad_ if this tag was used as a support more / less
flag and financial decisions on particular projects and people were heavily
based upon this underexplained and arbitrary list.
Well...
Based on the
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru
wrote:
Does anybody happen to know why Russia and Moldova are classified as
Global North whereas Ukraine and Belarus are classified as Global South,
from the WMF point of view?
For some reason this discussion made me think
And they say we, Poles, have a dry sense of humour. Let me guess Milos, you
are on purpouse mixing up two definitions of the White Sea (Бело
море / Belo More) in Serbian. :P
Coming back to the question of Yaroslav: this issue comes up regularily and
I find it perfectly valid.
Two years ago in
I agree with everything Michał said. It's a very flawed distinction, and
it is often misleading. We at WMF have certainly been paying much closer
attention to contexts at the level of countries and regions than to the
binary divide.
Conceivably, some time investment could result in a better and
